From An Island Life: In Hawaii, Aloha Friday is the day that we take it easy and look forward to the weekend. So I thought that on Fridays I would take it easy on posting, too. Therefore, I’ll ask a simple question for you to answer. Nothing that requires a lengthy response. If you’d like to participate, visit An Island Life answer the question and then post your own question on your blog and leave your link below. Don’t forget to visit the other participants! It’s a great way to make new bloggy friends!I apologize that this might be a lengthy response but with Father’s Day this weekend, I remember fond memories of my Dad.My question is:Share a memory of you and your dad?My answer:Even for me this is a hard question. I have so many good memories even though my dad passed away when I was 16 years old. I’ll share one that was near the end. It was right before he had gone into the hospital for the last time. He wanted to get out of the house, so I took him with me on some errands. I drove, and after a while, he said to me, “Who do you think you are, Mario Andretti”? You have an awful heavy foot”. (for those who don’t remember he was a race car driver in the Indy 500) And I looked at him and answered “No, I take after you”. He gave me a smile/smirk and never said another word about my driving. You see, when he was younger he was also a race car driver.

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My father died when I was 8 so my memories of him are more flashes and images in my head without meaning, but one I remember very well. I must have been very young because we were in New Jersey and I lived there from about the ages of 3 to 5. It was after my parents had split up because I was at "his" house, not "our" house (that's how my child brain remembers it). I woke up and saw snow out the window. It might have been the first time, or close enough, that I ever saw snow since we were from Florida. I remember waking him up and then simply watching the snow and being very happy.

My favorite memories with my father are watching him act like a child at Disney World. I remember our trips from when I was a kid and then out visit last year with my children. It was so much fun seeing him enjoy the time there away from the stresses of life.

Aloha, My memory for my dad. We went swimming, and we were in the lake, and he was playing around I'm drowning! His mouth was blowing bubbles in the water. He's yelling save me, save me! I kept walking out trying to save my dad until my mouth reached the water and then finally too far, and he laughed & picked me up as he stood up in the water! Somehow that memory was wrote in stone in my mind. He laughed and said, "That's my girl", and I was. Big time Daddy's Girl! By the way your dad was a what? Where did he race? I use to race at the U.S. 30 in a 55 Chevy called "My Little Mickey" in the Powder Puff derby when I was 18.

I'm sure that's exactly how he'd like to be remembered..with a chuckle and a smile. My father was a hoot – I remember when my mother asked him to spank us he'd take us in a room, put a finger up to our mouths and hit a pillow and whisper for us to yell….snicker. We loved him.

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